Working women who want to minimize career income losses related to motherhood should wait until they are about 30 years old to have their first children, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
Social Sciences
Apr 14, 2016
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The current economic situation in the United States has a major influence on first-year students' decisions about which college to attend and is reflected in their reasons for pursuing higher education, according to the CIRP ...
Social Sciences
Jan 24, 2013
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The engineering of thermal conductivity in semiconducting materials is a central issue in the development of modern nano- and microtechnologies. Low thermal conductivity is important in materials used in technology products, ...
Materials Science
Sep 11, 2017
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What's the right price for a college education? And what is its value?
Social Sciences
Feb 11, 2013
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Researchers have scaled up a powerful fluorescence imaging technique used to study biological processes on the cellular level. Previously limited to samples just millimeters in area, the expanded approach can analyze samples ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 26, 2018
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Recently, the team led by Prof. Zeng Changgan from the University of Sciences and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborating with Li Xiaoguang's team from Shenzhen University, has enabled ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 19, 2022
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Inside a solar cell, sunlight excites electrons. But these electrons often don't last long enough to go on to power cell phones or warm homes. In a promising new type of solar cell, the solar-excited electrons have better ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 14, 2017
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Since its birth in the laboratory, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology has developed into an industry worth tens of billions of dollars in the past three decades. In industrial applications, the phosphorescent ...
Materials Science
Oct 5, 2020
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When we think of retirement, we usually conjure images of silver-haired folks playing golf, going on long vacations or taking daytime naps as a reward for a lifetime of work.
Social Sciences
Nov 16, 2018
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(Phys.org) -- After a lifetime of lower wages and time out of the labor market for caregiving, women typically receive less from Social Security than men, with millions of widows and women of color falling into poverty in ...
Social Sciences
May 14, 2012
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